A Collection of songs and madrigals
By: by English composers of the close of the fifteenth century.Prepared for the members of the Plainsong and mediæval music society.
Contributors: Pearce, Charles William, 1856-1928.; Plainsong and Mediaeval Music Society (Great Britain)
Publisher: B. Quaritch
Published: 1891
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 31
Subjects: Vocal music, English.
Other titles: Songs and madrigals of the fifteenth century.
Notes: Half-title and binder's title: Songs and madrigals of the fifteenth century.

Accompanied by 8 sheets of music (ancient notation) in portfolio.

300 copies printed, of which this is no. 32.

Sections of introduction are variously signed "C. W. P. ( i. e. C. W. Pearce), "H. B. B." (i. e. H. B. Briggs), and "A. H.-H." (i. e.A. Hughes-Hughes).

"The accompaniments to the songs have been written specially for this work by Dr. C. W. Pearce."--Pref.

Songs: Kitt hath lost her kye. Alone I live, by Dr. Cooper. To live alone, by John Cole. In May, thatlusty season, by Thos. Farthing The little pretty nightingale. Though that she cannot redress. Ah! the sighs by W. Cornish, junior.

Madrigals: Jolly Rutterkin, by Wm. Cornish, junior. Margaret Meek, by -- Browne. This day day dawns.The farther I go, by Wm. Newark. I love, loved, and loved would I be, by Rob. Fairfax. I love, I love, and whom love ye, by Sir Thos. Phillips. If love now reigned (instrumental) by King Henry VIII.